Negative 36 with chickens in our garage
The past couple of weeks have been interesting to say the least. Our temperatures here in Interior Alaska have gone from positive temperatures in the teens to lows of -40. While the house is hanging in there, of course, no surprise there. This place was built to last, we have lost a couple of animals and now as of today, the 5th of January, we are housing three chickens in our garage. Unfortunately two of these girls had the bad luck to start molting late Autumn. Little Ms. Toriel started molting first in late November. Chloe came right behind her in mid December. By the morning of Christmas Eve it became apparent, we had to house poor little Toriel in the garage as first and foremost she had very little feathers on her poor body. She's also lower in the pecking order which means others are picking on her and she is not allowed to share their heat. As my husband brought her in to show me it was apparent, she was on deaths doorstep. Her eyes were frozen shut, her foot looked